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Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images--yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer Hilary Spurling, the unknown Matisse becomes visible at last. Matisse was born into a family of shopkeepers in 1869, in a gloomy textile town in the north of France. His environment was brightened only by the sumptuous fabrics produced by the local weavers--magnificent brocades and silks that offered Matisse his first vision of light and color, and which later became a familiar motif in his paintings. He did not find his artistic vocation until after leaving school, when he struggled for years with his father, who wanted him to take over the family seed-store. Escaping to Paris, where he was scorned by the French art establishment, Matisse lived for fifteen years in great poverty--an ordeal he shared with other young artists and with Camille Joblaud, the mother of his daughter, Marguerite. But Matisse never gave up. Painting by painting, he struggled toward the revelation that beckoned to him, learning about color, light, and form from such mentors as Signac, Pissarro, and the Australian painter John Peter Russell, who ruled his own art colony on an island off the coast of Brittany. In 1898, after a dramatic parting from Joblaud, Matisse met and married Amelie Parayre, who became his staunchest ally. She and their two sons, Jean and Pierre, formed with Marguerite his indispensable intimate circle. From the first day of his wedding trip to Ajaccio in Corsica, Matisse realized that he had found his spiritual home: the south, with its heat, color, and clear light. For years he worked unceasingly toward the style by which we know him now. But in 1902, just as he was on the point of achieving his goals as a painter, he suddenly left Paris with his family for the hometown he detested, and returned to the somber, muted palette he had so recently discarded. Why did this happen? Art historians have called this regression Matisse's "dark period," but none have ever guessed the reason for it. What Hilary Spurling has uncovered is nothing less than the involvement of Matisse's in-laws, the Parayres, in a monumental scandal which threatened to topple the banking system and government of France. The authorities, reeling from the divisive Dreyfus case, smoothed over the so-called Humbert Affair, and did it so well that the story of this twenty-year scam--and the humiliation and ruin its climax brought down on the unsuspecting Matisse and his family--have been erased from memory until now. It took many months for Matisse to come to terms with this disgrace, and nearly as long to return to the bold course he had been pursuing before the interruption. What lay ahead were the summers in St-Tropez and Collioure; the outpouring of "Fauve" p The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North 1869-1908 Spurling, Hilary, Penguin Group(CA)

Hilary Spurling:

In this biography containing accounts of his early years and originally published in 1998, Hilary Spurling sheds an entirely new light on the humiliations and failures that Matisse had to overcome in order to develop into the greatest French painter of this century. "Hilary Spurling's THE UNKNOWN MATISSE is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in narrative who has unearthed a fascinating story and told it brilliantly. I rate this first volume with the first volume of Richard Holmes's COLERIDGE . Both books mark a climax in what has been called a golden age of modern biography which began with Richard Ellman's JAMES JOYCE. It is a terrific achievement." Michael Holroyd Bücher / Fremdsprachige Bücher / Englische Bücher 978-0-14-017604-9, Penguin Books Ltd

The Unknown Matisse: v. 1: Paperback: Penguin Books Ltd: 9780140176049: 27 Apr 2000: Presents the biography of Matisse. 'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in narrative who has unearthed a fascinating story and told it brilliantly. I rate this first volume with the first volume of Richard Holmes' "Coleridge". Both books mark a climax in what has been called a golden age of modern biography which began with Richard Ellman's "James Joyce". It is a terrific achievement' - Michael Holroyd. History Of Art & Design Styles: From C 1900, , , , The Unknown Matisse: v. 1, Hilary Spurling, 9780140176049, Penguin Books Ltd, , , , ,, [PU: Penguin Books]

First paperback edition of a biography which sheds entirely new light on the French impressionist and was chosen by many reviewers as their book of the year in 1998. ´A major achievement by any standards´ John Golding. ´Her account of Matisse's early years are as rivetting as a novel by Zola´ John Richardson. ´Besides being a first rate scholar, she is an artist in narrative who has unearthed a fascinating story and told it brilliantly´ Michael Holroyd. varia, /200, [PU: Penguin Books]

Spurling, Hilary

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The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North 1869-1908

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0140176047

First paperback edition of a biography which sheds entirely new light on the French impressionist and was chosen by many reviewers as their book of the year in 1998. "A major achievement by any standards" John Golding. "Her account of Matisse's early years are as rivetting as a novel by Zola" John Richardson. "Besides being a first rate scholar, she is an artist in narrative who has unearthed a fascinating story and told it brilliantly" Michael Holroyd.

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